The Church of Our Lady of Carmel is located in Soline. It represents a valuable monument of baroque architecture, with an impression of monumentality and stylistic perfection. Since it was built in 1715 in honor of the victory against the Turks, it is also known as the Church of Our Lady of Victory.
After the victory over the Turks at Sinj in 1715, Makarska Bishop Nikola Bijankovic (1645-1730) had the Church of Mary Victory built in Brela, today the Church of Our Lady of Carmel. It is a votive church built during the Turkish siege of Sinj in 1715. The church was built in the shape of a Roman cross. Bishop Nikola received a mass vestment, two bells and holy vessels from the doge for the church, and in 1728 he was given a privileged altar. People called the church Our Lady of Slavodobic. On the 300th anniversary of the construction of the church, on July 16, 2015, the grateful people of Brel erected a monument to the bishop, which is located in the church yard. The monument was made by the academic painter Sandra Nejasmic-Pirnat. Due to the lack of priests, Bishop Bijankovic built an oratory in Solina in 1710, which was part of the oratory in Split. He brought a group of Glagolitic priests and some scholars to the oratory. The oratory served as a refuge for poor young refugees from the southern areas of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina, which at that time partly belonged to the diocese of Makarska. In it, they were given temporary accommodation, some of the more talented and eager to learn were given the opportunity to be raised and educated so that they could be ordained as priests. The bishop named the oratory as a refuge for faithful Christians who fled from dangerous lands. The small oratory of Brela maintained its educational role even when there were no more such fugitives. For almost the entire 18th century, it was a kind of Glagolitic seminary, albeit unofficial and temporary. In 1939, the Church of Our Lady of Carmel became part of Brela County. The last renovation of the interior, altar and paintings was carried out just before the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the beginning of its construction.
In Brela, Bijankovic's pine tree, which was located under the current Soline hotel, is still known today. During the construction of the hotel in 1983, it was destroyed due to negligence, and in 1995, thanks to the branch of Matica Hrvatska, a new pine tree was planted in honor of the bishop and a memorial plaque was erected.